Show WHALES YIELD HUGE PROFITS U S Navy Shoots Mon Monsters and Norwegians Salvage Them By LEE LEc OVERMAN Special Correspondent of cf The Standard Examiner Copyright 1925 Consolidated Press Association I SA SAN DIEGO CaRt Calif March H- H HI 14 I The Tue thrilling cry than she blows I Is being heard on board the Pacific lis fleet fIet Just now almost as often as 20 years Tears ago when whaling was one or of the worlds world's greatest Industries and stout but smelly whaling shaling haling ships from rom New Bedford Conn and San FrancIsco cruised the seven seas seasor for or whale shale bone and sperm Most of oC the worlds orld S pre present ent day whale hale hunting however is being done within a radius of miles off this port 0 off the coast ot of o Lower California Cal which as long as a cen- cen century cen century I tury ago Wall as recognized as the worlds world's greatest greato t stamping ground I for leviathan ot the deep but un tin- un like a score of years ago shea hen henI I American whalers whaler wore were busy world i I supremacy line Ime now belongs I to Norwegians PROFITABLE INDUSTRY That the whaling long profits thought dead and that greater prof its are being derived from it ow than ever r before was sea as brought to light here this week seek eek when shen hen a couple of American destroyers cruising off Magdalena bay near here tn engaged aged In target practice with whales as asI their moving mo Ing targets American gunners scored clean hits on all I hales they shot at Possibly a I score of ot shots hots wire were we're v re fired and as many dead whales were tallied up The navy having no use for dead upI I bales left let them where they thy were Hardy Hardly had shooting ceased how however ever titan than a fleet of oC whaling haling ships fl fling Ing the Nor Norwegian flag mo cd up Lines were put aboard all nil the dead whales and acre w ere towed I away a ray ay A few days clays later Ame destro ers engaged In more target practice Mole Mote dead whales were chalked up l I Again the Norv Nors eglan hove hose into view OVERLOOKED A BET developed de the I that Norv NorY eglan eian whalers hale hao hav o es- es established es established a base ot of o operations on Magdalena bay 0 off Lo Lower Loser er Califor California nia and that for two J lear vears ears shile Americans were WE're a rIch opportunity close along their own shores the tile Norwegians have been reaping a II harvest hartest of ot millions of barrels of o whale shale hale oil together with orl thousands of ot tons of o othel othet shale hale b products all alt ot of which are find i find finding ing lug ready markets in the European I countrIes rive Five ships constitute the sian glan whaling fleet which is operating lag Ins off oft Magdalena bay According to the skipper o of one of them who this week seek eek put his ship into San DIego harbor the whale shale hale catch of oC all five vessels In four tour months has beEn more than 75 whales shile I sInce t two tao 0 oars ears ago when they first commenced to operate o n 03 firstI the I southern California coast more than seven million barrels of whale oil have bave been shipped from I Lower California base to Christi Christl- Christl-ania Christl anla Norway Nor t NO Io O PART WASTED I Unlike the old davs da s of ot small boats harpooned by hand hen shen only a small part of the carcass I was taken taken provided provided the whale crew survived sur the the hunt hunt the Nor Nor- Norwegian Norwegian I whalers are models of ot efficiency ef cr efficiency I No part of oC the whale goes to waste Instead of being a wind wind- windjammer wind wind-jammer I jammer as in olden da daIs das s the tile mod mod- modern modera modern I ern era whaler shaler haler Is a steam vessel essel with sufficient speed to overtake any I shale hale And Instead ot of huge lingo sea mammals being pursued in small boats the whaler Itself chases I them Harpoons no longer longe are used As soon as a whale shale Is sight sight- sighted sighted ed a long deck gun Is trained upon It The charge e e ex explodes when It strikes the whale and all that is necessary it the marksmanship has been good IS for the whaler to pull alongsIde the whale and gather it in FIND AMBERGRIS Most of ot the whales hales being caught are humpbacks with few spErms flu fin backs and sulphur bottoms They range in weight from 25 to tons and in value from 00 to apiece Only a a few weeks seeks eeles ago aso It Is asserted one of oC the Norwegian ships found a lump of ot ambergris lU lUa n II a slain levIathan that e 15 in m I value alu alue One of o the Nor Norwegian eglan shaling vv fleet vessels Is used entirely as a I refiner The slain slam whales hales are tied lied astern by other whalers during the days day's hunt huOt and at night they no t towed to the waiting salting refining shIp Under modern methods of or handling dead carcasses the average whale I is made to yield 13 pounds ot of otI hIgh grade oil pounds I or of whale shale guano 2500 pounds of ot I bone meal pounds of gill bone The skins of all captured whales ate e tanned and later latr com converted in into 1111 to leather for shoes purses purse and bags WHALES INCREASED I Magdalena bayas bay was sas the scene or of American whaling operations about ten years vears ears ago At that time the leviathans had been heen hunted so as as- as as I asI that only a few I Shortly thereafter th practically all II American whaling operations WEre WE're abandoned Since then whales I have Increased at a II great rate In I fact the admit there are more whales now than there e eer ever er were |